The Family Business

She/her. Canadian, queer, 30+, possibly a Jawa in disguise. Lots of writing, a bit of cosplay. Gale Dekarios and Theron Shan are in my fictional harem. More writing on AO3 (same username). SL/DZ 37912, 501st Legion. Avatar by @aevari, header by @dingoat! Minors and terfs DNI.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

chatgpt didn’t invent the emdash and they can’t fucking have it. it’s mine.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i am literally a writer and you cant even finish the word “mind” lets calm down

[germanicusgirl]

like i need water. or air even.

[showtimechamaco]

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈HAPPY PRIDE🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

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[justphilosophical]

This is definitely on par with the original

[doli-nemae]

Happy Pride Month 🔪

[mothman-etd]

Reminder, it is important to reblog and post pure unashamed thirst to keep the puritans away.

This is both healthy for the individual and the ecosystem as a whole

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[thesaltofcarthage]

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

[jerreeeeeee]

not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally

[jerreeeeeee]

what mutual is prev

my liege lord

my loyal knight

my wise wizard

my evil advisor

my brother in arms

my lady muse

my wild mermaid friend

my fellow alchemist

my dashing rapscallion

my monstrous foe

Remaining time: 2 days 13 hours

[keldae]

BINGO!! @badthingshappenbingo

Slot: Carved Mark Fandom: Baldur's Gate Three Characters: Astarion Warnings: referenced torture, starvation

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All that Astarion could feel was pain.

Pain by itself was nothing new to him, of course – after having spent so much of his unlife in Cazador Szarr’s clutches, he was almost used to torture. He was accustomed to being bitten or beaten by his master, used to having his legs forced apart against his will as someone else took him on a given night, quite used to the gnawing pain of hunger that the rats could never satiate. But this…

He shakily sat up on his narrow cot in the slave pen, feeling his back burning incessantly. He knew, from Cazador’s gloating, that his wounds had been caused by a silver knife. That, he knew, meant they would never heal properly. With trembling fingers, he reached over his shoulder, and hissed at the raised ridges of once-flawless porcelain skin on his back. They should have been dripping with blood, but after a tenday of displeasing his master, and almost as long being an undead canvas, Astarion didn’t have enough blood in him to bleed from his wounds.

“Fuck,” he whispered to himself as he gingerly reached around himself to feel the bumps and ridges of scar tissue in his back. It hurt – gods, it hurt so badly. He could almost feel the silver knife cutting into his skin still, carving up his back to whatever Cazador wanted to see as he’d desperately held back his pained screams. Was there even a pattern or a meaning to his wounds? He couldn’t tell. For all he knew, Cazador had carved the portrait of a gnome or a god’s symbol or a mind flayer into his back.

For a second, he entertained the thought of asking one of the other spawn to draw his scars for him to see. But no – he didn’t dare show any weakness to his siblings. Cazador had done far too good a job in fostering a sense of distrust between his spawn slaves. No, Astarion would have to suffer in silence… as he usually did.

He looked up as the door to his cell opened, and a dead rat was carelessly thrown in. His stomach churned, half from hunger and half from repulsion of the festering rodent. But, after so many years, he knew that this rat was all he would be given – if he was lucky, he would be given another tomorrow, instead of being left to starve again. With a hiss of pain, he got off his cot and made his way to the rat corpse, wrinkling his nose against the stench of rotting flesh. His fangs bit into the rat’s stomach, and he drank down the vile blood, without throwing it up. He had made that critical error once, and Cazador had punished him for a month for it.

Once Astarion had drained the rodent of every drop of rancid blood, he sighed, then wriggled into his worn white shirt, hissing as the fabric brushed against the wounds on his back. If he was being fed, then he was expected to go out into the city and bring back a victim for his master’s enjoyment tonight. And it certainly wouldn’t do for him to go out without a shirt on – what if some too-nosey soul got a look at his back? He pulled his blue doublet on over the shirt, doing up the front closures, and ran his fingers through his white hair. Hopefully his appearance would come across as “stylishly disheveled” and not “starving vampire slave”. Please the master, and perhaps he won’t hurt you again, he thought to himself as he stepped out of the cell, hiding his winces as every movement hurt his carved-up back worse.

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[mmelete]

[carby]

[voidsentprinces]

[autism-official]

[autism-official]

obligatory reblog of this after I forgot to bookmark them (again)

[gar-wafflez]

@finns-gifs

[tiwaenriel]

evilly rubbing my hands together because now i can make The Funnies with this for my ocs

[sandersstudies]

Name as many Shakespeare plays as you can. Feel free to write them down and check your answers but not to cheat. How many can you name?

0

1

2-3

4-5

6-7

8-9

10-14

15-19

20-24

25-29

30-35

36+ (“all of them” depending on who you ask)

Remaining time: 3 days 5 hours

Tell me in the comments: are you from a country that speaks predominantly English? Was any Shakespeare required in your education?

[frauleiiin]

Hey, could you link that short story about Sa'har again? The one that helps give context for Tau's worry about her. I was trying to find it, but I can't seem to. >.< (I think you're the person who originally mentioned it...if not, ignore me.)

I have! Actually, there's a few short stories I've read but they're hard to find, so I found this reddit post and thought about making a list on tumblr for easier access!

Short Stories

The Search for Oricon - Log written by Jonas Balkar, takes place prior to Oricon missions

Lana Beniko's Journal: Darth Arkous - Written by Lana, takes place just prior to Depths of Manaan FP

Surface Details - Written by a Selkath on Manaan with appearances from Theron and Lana, takes place just prior to Depths of Manaan FP

Wanted: Dead and Dismantled - About Jakarro and C2-D4

Remnants - About a smuggler on Rakata Prime

Bedtime on Concordia - About Mandalorians telling stories of Shae Vizla

The Price of Power - About Darth Marr and Darth Lachris, just prior to when Lachris took over Balmorra

One Night in the Dealer's Den - About Theron Shan and Jonas Balkar after the events of Yavin 4

The Final Trial - About Lana Beniko during her time as an acolyte on Korriban

Regrets - About Theron Shan and Jace Malcom after the events of Yavin 4

The Sixth Line: Part One - About the Sixth Line prior to Ziost

The Sixth Line: Part Two

Vacation - About Nico Okarr

Brothers - About Arcann and Thexan during their invasion of the Core Worlds

A Mother's Hope - About Senya and Vaylin between KOTFE and KOTET

Trading Scars - About Umbarans, takes place just prior to Crisis on Umbara FP

Chasing Copero - About Theron Shan just prior to A Traitor among the Chiss FP

Seeing Red - About Rass Ordo

Quite A Story To Tell - About Aryn Leneer

All That’s Left - About Sa'har Kateen

Bottled Fury - About Shae Vizla, prior to Ruhnuk (part 1)

Snare - About Shae Vizla, prior to Ruhnuk (part 2)

Last Road to Khar Shian - About Shae Vizla prior to Khar Shian

[whatthemythicalwhat]

I love Josh’s anti-classism so much. I grew up in a single parent household that didn’t have time/the ability to cook. I taught myself as an adult and ended up loving it. I cook with this stuff a lot. Shit, the RealLemon juice ends up in a lot of my cocktails. Sure, I like fancy ingredients when I can afford them and I have things I get picky about using - but I have bad hands, mincing garlic is painful as fuck. There’s a lot to be said for knowing how to work with what you have. Don’t shame people for trying, don’t shame people for feeding their families things that they enjoy.

[brunhiddensmusings]

if you are only a good cook if you have access to premium ingredients at whole foods or above prices then you arent really a good cook

[headspace-hotel]

I think about this post a lot because of the phrase "i'll cook anyone's ass under the table."

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

make a bunch of wheels with bread/cheese/meat/vegetables/sauce/extra so that you can Spin for Sandwich

you're making a sandwich!! Spin THIS wheel 3-5 times for the toppings!

How is it!

good!!

it's alright

ew

EW

inedible

Results

Voting ended onJun 3

op note: I GOT JAM, JAM AND HOT SAUCE. IM DEAD.

[astarioffsimpmain]

I love Gale Dekarios. He's perfect. They put crack into pixels and called it a man. What have you done to me, Larian? I'm an addict now.

Look at this shit. How am I just expected to live my life after this?

[optimisticgrey]

This is healthy and we are all absolutely normal about him

[astarioffsimpmain]

Exactly! It has to be healthy and normal. Why wouldn't it be?

*eye twitches*

[optimisticgrey]

Don't know what you are referring to

[arcanearcherayz]

This is a totally normal relationship

[optimisticgrey]

Oh, are we bringing this back? 😬

[astarioffsimpmain]

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck what an image. 🥵

Yeah, let's bring it back. Why not?

[baelthi]

*rushing in late again*

(ﾉ°ω°)ﾉ♥ Gale?

[sheyshen]

7.9 is being pushed back to polish some things before launch, new goal is early june!

plus there's a new short story while we wait!

[funny-tik-toks]

[cool-beans-central]

Trying to keep up with this made me feel like English wasn’t my native language

[fliplifeupsidedown]

this is art

[phoenixyfriend]

One of my big breaks with star wars canon is that I fully think that, even with hyperlanes, they should need several weeks to get from the outer rim to Coruscant. I will write that trip as taking Forever unless people are using restricted tech (military) or breaking the law (Han Solo).

[phoenixyfriend]

I can accept a midpoint btw. The military can take a few days but the freight travel should be weeks.

But like... it should take as long to get a superfreighter from Tatooine to Coruscant as it does to get a container ship from Japan to Ireland (48 days).

I want to imagine that they (the cargo ships) are also more dangerous at FTL speeds so they have dedicated slow lanes. Extra wide for safety, with really long "exit ramps" so they can accel/decel out without hitting anyone. We want to avoid an accidental Holdo Maneuver.

There are also emergency lanes that are kept clear for, well, emergencies. It's not like you can DODGE in a hyperlane. You can't pull over to let the emergency ships speed past you.

So. Service lanes.

So you have the extra slow lanes for freight/cargo/other huge liners.

"Normal" lanes for personal or small group transports.

And emergency lanes for the military, relief aid, political officials, etc.

So the military gets there in two days (ftl equivalent of Mach speeds), solo travelers get there in anywhere from one to three weeks (you can pay for the faster lanes, but it's restricted for safety; bounty hunters usually pay for the faster lane).

And the giant cargo ship is going to take two months. Because fuck you, transportation is such a crucial element of SO MANY TRADE ISSUES, you can't just whittle it down. It needs to be a pain in the ass. You gotta make it suck.